Role of the Search Manager Web Part

The Ontolica Search Manager Web Part is invisible to the user, so you will not notice it until you open a page in edit mode. The purpose of this part is to coordinate functions between the various other Ontolica parts that might be on the page and also to configure the general response of the page to incoming queries. It is required for all pages that contain any other type of Ontolica Web Part (but not for the Search Box Web Control).